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In 2006, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), a multi-stakeholder policy framework to promote the rational  management of chemicals worldwide. SAICM was conceived as the principal international f

On 14 and 15 February 2023, the fourth edition of the Dynamique pour la Transition Agroécologique au Sénégal (DyTAES) was held in Dakar at the Musée des civilisations noires. This year’s theme was “the territorialisation of agroecology in Senegal”. The opening ceremo

Last October, the POPs Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention (PORC) decided to recommend the listing of pesticide Endosulfan in the Annex A of the Stockholm Convention for its global elimination. Unfortunately today, the global ban of this dangerous pesticide Endosulfan has bee

Support Project to the rice sector for food safety« BEY DUNDE » Raising awareness among schoolchildren and preparation of posters providing information and signalling for a safe pesticide management in the Unions of  Federation of self-managed perimeters in Senegal (FPA). The context

98% of undernourished in the world live in developing countries (FAO, 2012) and 60% of women are affected by hunger (ECOSOC, 2007). Nearly half of the Senegalese population lives below the poverty line ie less than $ 1 (ANSAD, 2007). Women suffer most from this situation (World Bank,

Thanks to a journal that went across 11 countries in Asia and 3 countries in Africa, women shared their personal experiences and those of their communities.”These stories show the persistence and severity of problems related to reproductive health, such as forced marriage, unsaf

Dear friends,Pesticide Action Network International would like to request organizations to sign on to the Call to Action on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), which will be presented to the 2nd. Meeting of the SAICM Open-ended Working Group, Geneva, 15-17 December 2014. The petition

PAN Africa held a workshop on sustainable farming techniques with women farmers last January 19th to 21st 2015 at the Forestry and Recycling Centre of Thies. This workshop is part of the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) programme of Netherlands being implemented b

Ecological crises and land speculation are bound issues, negatively influencing hunger that affects one billion people in the world, most of whom are from rural areas, particularly women and children. Women are those particularly affected by this new phase of capitalistic globalizatio